MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The fiancée of an “America’s Got Talent” contestant scrutinized for claims he was injured in Afghanistan says he made a “mistake” when he gave the show a photograph of a soldier instead of himself.

The NBC series this week and a Dallas TV station last month used the picture with segments on Timothy Michael Poe, a former Minnesota National Guardsman who said he was injured in a 2009 grenade attack in Afghanistan. The Guard says military records don’t substantiate those claims.

The original picture on a military website identifies the soldier as a staff sergeant in Afghanistan in 2006.